NEWS MEDIA: Window on a war
- September 12th, 2014
- Posted by EU Australia
A document bought for one pound this year at an English market tells of an aspect of the war on the Western front 80 years ago.
From Lee Duffield, somewhere in France
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A document bought for one pound this year at an English market tells of an aspect of the war on the Western front 80 years ago.
From Lee Duffield, somewhere in France
There has been no easing of the campaign in support of the Al-Jazeera English journalists imprisoned in Cairo.
Supporters say this is in response to a sense of injustice; the group are seen as scapegoats for trouble between the Egyptian government now in power and the Arabic language service of their news organisation; legal representatives decried the weak quality of evidence, or absence of evidence on the political charges brought against them.
In the latest intervention, the International Federation of Journalists and its affiliate Arab Federation of Journalists have obtained access to the Prime Minister in Cairo this week. … Read More »
Handling the claims of the outside world – matching custom and change – is a way of life for the Ni-Vanuatu, the people of the Pacific Islands republic of Vanuatu. … Read More »
rom Lee Duffield – in the Pacific islands.
The mood in New Caledonia, the racially and ethnically divided French territory of the South-west Pacific, is there for the outsider to easily sample.
It has great promise, with a studied accord on getting to some form, or other, of independence; and in other ways it does not feel good. (Picture – Noumea harbour) … Read More »
Sorting through problems of a troubled world in eyeball-to-eyeball contact among heads of government – at the G20 — always holds out the hope of getting some solutions though real communication.
It also means risk and high organisation; why squads of armed police this month have been deployed for exercises — with air support, in water, and rehearsing street movements — close to the bottom of the world, for the G20 summit in November.
Lee Duffield writes:
President Francois Hollande faced the question, 14.1.13, about his hapless sex scandal involving an actress and political supporter, at the traditional start-of-year media conference in Paris.
In coverage from the event – in a grand hall with some 500 journalists, the President flanked by Ministers and flags- the affair swamped somewhat urgent economic news about his plans for stimulus and for dealing with revenue problems in a slow economy. … Read More »
The drip feed of information purloined from American security files continued this year as Edward Snowden, former CIA-NSA contractor, continued the campaign from his Russian sanctuary.
The news of American phone-tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel (picture), provoking an apology from President Barack Obama (picture) who indicated such practices would stop, was matched by complaints from South-east Asia saying Australia was running the Asia-Pacific side of such operations.
Targetted in this were the so-called Five Eyes states that share intelligence, the United States and the old “white Commonwealth”: Australia, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. … Read More »